Virtual Versus Classical Universities: Liberal Arts and Humanities

Edwards, Kenneth

doi:10.1080/03797720220141942

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“…Higher education, suggested Edwards (2001), has not. yet changed significantly, despite attempts and calls to do so.…”

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Teaching at the border of despair and hope: supporting the education of non‐traditional working class student teachers

Mello

2004

Westminster Studies in Education

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This study focuses on a group of working class adult students' experiences and reactions to their encounters during a foundational series of university courses required of all preprofessional education students. It finds that sharing stressful events and personal information during analytical discussions led to the development of a collegial learning community and added to participants' respect for difference and diversity. The study also finds that these non-traditional undergraduates viewed their own academic learning experience, as well as their role as college students, through a standpoint of struggle and distress. However, their future professional goal, being a teacher, was defined from an opposite point of view. Education and learning as a profession was viewed as a liberating experience, a way out of poverty and other stressful conditions. The dissonance between these two perspectives is explored from a variety of theoretical perspectives and the discussion ends with a call for more inclusive and flexible university programs that support working class and non-traditional students' perspectives and needs.

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“…Higher education, suggested Edwards (2001), has not. yet changed significantly, despite attempts and calls to do so.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching at the border of despair and hope: supporting the education of non‐traditional working class student teachers

Mello

2004

Westminster Studies in Education

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E-learning in humanities in Italian universities: a preliminary report

Iannucci

Parmeggiani

Zaccarini

2011

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Virtual University: Education as a Lifestyle

Svyrydenko¹,

Kyvliuk²

2020

Educational Discourse: Collection of Scientific Papers

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The concept of the virtual university is relatively new and it is necessary to distinguish a number of contradictory points in its verification. Firstly, it is the quality of the education received. The problem of educational process content at the virtual university, organization of control and level of accomplished tasks, issues of intellectual abilities and critical thinking development, reflexivity of consciousness are the subject of heated discussions of both the supporters and opponents of the virtual university idea. Secondly, there is the question of the way of thinking. The virtual space involves a network mode of organization characterized by openness of the structure, poly variability of determination and expediency of modal logic. The phenomenon of virtual university is the result of responding to the needs of social transformation. In such model, the content of the social roles of the teacher and the student changes significantly. The competence of the modern teacher is not limited to knowledge. After all, the most experienced academician is not able to absorb all the information in a certain science, and obviously loses in the volume of assimilated information to any search engine.

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Virtual Versus Classical Universities: Liberal Arts and Humanities

Cited by 3 publications

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Teaching at the border of despair and hope: supporting the education of non‐traditional working class student teachers

Teaching at the border of despair and hope: supporting the education of non‐traditional working class student teachers

E-learning in humanities in Italian universities: a preliminary report

Virtual University: Education as a Lifestyle

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